Very little media focus on this strangely but Eirgrid almost had a power outage last week due to insufficient power on the grid. There was a surge in power demand due to the very cold weather there was no wind power and Moneypoint and Whitegate powerstations were offline due to technical problems. They barely got away with it due to just about getting enough power in through the interconnectors from the UK.
Yet the media widely reported that Moneypoint did not get a licence to continue to produce power upto 2025 and we have mothballed the Midlands peat burning stations even though they have 20 years of generating life still left. Are we crazy, why are the media not reporting this very critical stuff that we are running out of generating capacity while shutting down perfectly good generating stations because of dogma rather than real life practicalities.
Yet the media widely reported that Moneypoint did not get a licence to continue to produce power upto 2025 and we have mothballed the Midlands peat burning stations even though they have 20 years of generating life still left. Are we crazy, why are the media not reporting this very critical stuff that we are running out of generating capacity while shutting down perfectly good generating stations because of dogma rather than real life practicalities.